tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497928641398322495.post6013328894450457838..comments2024-03-23T12:33:33.918-04:00Comments on Junta Juleil's Culture Shock: Film Review: MY BLOODY VALENTINE (1981, George Mihalka)Sean Gillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00537515557596273876noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497928641398322495.post-90696628316719317812013-07-27T16:53:15.104-04:002013-07-27T16:53:15.104-04:00Anon.,
I suppose I've never gotten around to ...Anon.,<br /><br />I suppose I've never gotten around to it, but it's definitely on a back burner somewhere– my backlog is ridiculous!Sean Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00537515557596273876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497928641398322495.post-42698134068706273872013-07-26T18:22:39.197-04:002013-07-26T18:22:39.197-04:00Well I quite enjoyed watching this movie on USA Up...Well I quite enjoyed watching this movie on USA Up All Night back in the olden days. And now that you also mentioned Sleepaway Camp, why no review of that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497928641398322495.post-45480948235487449752011-04-10T04:26:41.255-04:002011-04-10T04:26:41.255-04:00Good call on Halloween, I didn't think of it b...Good call on Halloween, I didn't think of it because MBV's setting hits closer to home for me, in a way. And I totally see it in Sleepaway Camp too; for such a poorly made film it does get strangely unnerving. A lot of times a lack of any semblance of good "acting" can work in a film's favor (I'd probably put Phantasm in that realm, too, and I don't mean that in any way as an insult - it rules!).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497928641398322495.post-24590255258217680592011-04-05T18:01:39.057-04:002011-04-05T18:01:39.057-04:00J.D.,
Thanks for the kind words, bud- Canada rea...J.D., <br /><br />Thanks for the kind words, bud- Canada really did have a great horror run in those days (and of course a little of the credit goes to a certain Mr. Ironside). Did not see the remake, but I suspect that it would draw my ire.<br /><br />Mike B., <br /><br />Thanks for stopping by! You're right that Valentine Bluffs feels like a real place- the proceedings have a definite verisimilitude to them that is rarely seen in a slasher. I'd say that HALLOWEEN has it to, and to an almost magical realist extent, so does SLEEPAWAY CAMP. <br /><br />I enjoy FRIDAY THE 13TH and its sequels, but on a much different level– for example, I never have found myself admiring the craftsmanship in an F13 flick as I really did while watching VALENTINE.Sean Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00537515557596273876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497928641398322495.post-58709871676775654732011-04-04T02:49:06.396-04:002011-04-04T02:49:06.396-04:00Bravo, indeed. It really is the slasher flick with...Bravo, indeed. It really is the slasher flick with the most "real" setting. I was a little kid growing up in Hot Springs, AR in the very early 80's, and when I saw this movie, it took me back. There's just enough of Hot Springs in Valentine Bluffs' small-town, good ol' fashioned folks, and it really rings true in a way that, say, Friday the 13th never did. Hard to explain, but it's like something you feel and can't fake. Great post!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497928641398322495.post-69354403613177841772011-03-27T12:17:55.334-04:002011-03-27T12:17:55.334-04:00"FOOTLOOSE with blood" - bravo, sir! heh..."FOOTLOOSE with blood" - bravo, sir! heh. I totally agree. This is such an entertaining film for all the reasons you mentioned. Esp. the casting of people who actually look like real people and not beautiful kids from the WB network something, which, of course, the remake went with. This is a creepy film and the setting goes a long way in creating an unsettling atmosphere. So glad that the uncut version has finally seen the light of day. Another potent reminder of what great run Canada had making horror films in the 1980s...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08164105442273577128noreply@blogger.com